Agendas, proposals and other items of business will
be transmitted electronically on Friday of the week prior to the meeting.
An e-mail will be sent notifying you of the meeting and telling you the
agenda is available on the WEB. Curriculum proposals and other agenda items
should be submitted electronically to the committee secretary no later
than 4:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the week prior to the meeting.
This is an ABSOLUTE DEADLINE. An original signature page
signed by the sponsor of the proposal and the department chair needs to
be submitted to the Dean's Office prior to the day of the meeting.
To help expedite the passage of a proposal, a copy should be submitted
to the Dean's Office for review and possible corrections or revisions well
in advance of that date.
The Committee should examine the ability of a department/area
to offer a proposed course on a regular basis. In addition, it expects
departments/areas to include a "staffing impact" statement with all new
course proposals.
The Committee will scrutinize proposed courses to
determine if there is substantial duplication of content or approach between
them and any existing course and, if there appears to be, will urge the
departments/areas in question to pool their resources
The Committee expects departments/areas to affirm
that each proposed course is a sound contribution to the College and to
the student's educational experience.
The Committee should examine the relationship between
specific courses and the programs of the proposing department/area, programs
of other departments/areas, and the objectives of the College, as well
as anticipated student demand.
The Committee will not consider any proposals that
have not followed the published format provided by the University Curriculum
Committee.
Items such as including a new course in majors/submajors,
incorporating number changes into programs, deleting deleted courses from
programs and correcting wording or typographical errors, will simply be
listed (e.g., "Sociology: include new course XXX in all programs") in an
"information only" section at the end of the agenda to be "received and
recorded" as a group. If an agenda consists solely of such items,
an electronic meeting will be held. As with all "information" items,
any voting member or the chair of the committee may request that any such
item be brought to the table for individual consideration. Substantive
program or course changes will continue to be treated as regular agenda
items.